The Associated PressIt was 8 o'clock on a weeknight and Brooklyn resident Sarah Sheehan was reeling from a painful earache. She wouldn't be able to see her doctor until the next morning, and that would require a 45-minute subway ride uptown. That's when Sheehan, co-founder of an education technology business, remembered receiving a promotional code for a new company called Pager, an Uber-like service that sends doctors to patients' homes.READ MORE

Health CanalScientists at the University of York believe they have identified how some tiny regulatory molecules in cells can make prostate cancers resistant to radiotherapy. Living cells from a human prostate. It is hoped that this new development could pave the way for more effective treatments – allowing a lower dose of radiotherapy to be used while prolonging the lives of thousands of men.READ MORE

NY Daily NewsIn a four-month trial, testosterone therapy did not improve ejaculation problems in men with low testosterone levels. Sexual dysfunction in men generally falls into three categories, study author Dr. Shehzad Basaria of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston told Reuters: problems with libido, problems with erections and problems with ejaculation.READ MORE

ReutersPeople with high blood pressure who regularly take common painkillers known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may increase their risk of developing chronic kidney disease, a study from Taiwan suggests. While some previous research has linked NSAIDs to impaired kidney function, the results have been mixed and often overlooked the effects on people with high blood pressure, or hypertension, which itself carries an elevated risk for kidney damage.READ MORE

University of California San FranciscoAfter decades of overtreatment for low-risk prostate cancer and inadequate management of its more aggressive forms, patients are now more likely to receive medical care matched to level of risk, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco.READ MORE

CNBCAbout 7.5 million taxpayers so far have paid a penalty on their taxes for failing to have health insurance last year, as required for the first time by the Affordable Care Act, officials said Monday. That number is well in excess of original projections by officials. The average penalty paid was about $200 per person, and in all $1.5 billion was collected by the Internal Revenue Service in these fines.READ MORE

HealthLeaders MediaThe slowing growth of healthcare costs has extended Medicare's projected lifespan 13 years beyond projections made in 2009, the last report issued before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.READ MORE

ReutersAmericans are reporting improved health and better healthcare two years after health insurance became available under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.READ MORE

The AtlanticCellphone use is not generally restricted in the operating room, but some experts say the time for rules has come. In interviews, many described co-workers’ texting friends and relatives from the surgical suite. Some spoke of colleagues who hide a phone in a drawer and check it when they think no one is watching.READ MORE

California HealthlineMany medical students in the San Francisco Bay Area do not apply to residency programs, foregoing traditional career paths to instead become entrepreneurs, according to data from Doximity, an online physician network. For instance, just 65 percent of medical students at Stanford University went on to residencies in 2011. Meanwhile, 79 percent of UC-San Francisco medical students went on to residency programs that year.READ MORE

California HealthlineEfforts in the Inland Empire to attract more doctors to treat underserved populations could be used as a model for other regions across the U.S., Kaiser Health News reports. The Inland Empire region – which includes Riverside and San Bernardino counties – has been experiencing a doctor shortage for decades, according to KHN.READ MORE